I gave it a few hours of play, but the number of people dropped too low a few days after closed beta started.

People that were playing during that time were trying to figure it out or were in the alpha, the people that seemed to have played for awhile already were doing stuff like chain capping practiced routes or standing at the other teams base in heavy mowing people down with the chaingun.

They just wanted pub stomp people, I am sure lots of people that didn't play tribes before were too frustrated to keep playing. Only server with people on it was the newbie server after the first day.

like yeah, I'm bored of the game atm. I've been waiting for some balance changes and things like flag iff toggles for a while and the current game got a little stale for me.
I also think classic base is a bad design choice to replicate and it will probably be the death of the game. But as a "triber" the game is fun enough for me to enjoy more than most games.

I can get frustrated that certain things haven't been addressed yet, but I haven't reached the point where I'm hoping the game fails just to smite the dev team.

Maps should be marked with WIP if they are not finished and there should be servers that only use final maps... Way too many unfinished maps in rotation; maybe they should just have a dev hosted server for all the unfinished maps to get feedback instead.

the player models are ****, i really don't like them, but i also don't give a **** about that, as long as the mechanics are good.

personally, i think most of the hate from the tw crowd is because they are a bunch of old men that can't play tribes like they used to anymore, so they refuse to support or allow another tribes-like game to exist for anyone else.

Stop trying to make other excuses for it. It's so bad. I can open T1 and fly around any map i choose and haven't opened it since TW:W. Once you pass the learning curve, it's like riding a bike. It'll take you a few minutes if you haven't done it in 30 years, but it's simple to regain.

This game is ****.

I see why the t2 players can enjoy it. Cuz it feels exactly like legions.